When the unemployment rate is 4 percent, or even lower, it presents a challenge for the political party out of power: How do you make the case that things could be better? Or that things are really ...

That's a military success, but not necessarily one that will last. The Islamic State group is down, but it is not done. President Donald Trump on Wednesday flashed a color-coded map to illustrate what ...

“If you look at the data, you will see there was a 65 percent decrease in incarceration of African Americans when you go from the beginning of my term to the end.” — Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), in ...

Several Democrats have claimed that the president’s emergency declaration could “raid” or “take money away” from military pay and pensions to fund construction of the border wall. But the basis for ...

By Paul Specht on Wednesday, March 20th, 2019 at 1:42 p.m. Sen. Thom Tillis, Republican from North Carolina, speaks on the Senate floor in Washington D.C. on March 14, 2019. (Screen grab/cspan.org) ...